Specifies the number of pages reserved for the exclusive use of the pageout or scheduler threads. When available memory is less than this value, nonblocking allocations are denied for any processes other than pageout or the scheduler. Pageout needs to have a small pool of memory for its use so it can allocate the data structures necessary to do the I/O for writing a page to its backing store.
Unsigned integer
throttlefree / 2
The minimum value is 64 KB or 1/512th of physical memory, whichever is greater, expressed as pages using the page size returned by getpagesize(3C).
The maximum is the number of physical memory pages. The maximum value should be no more than 2 percent of physical memory. The system does not enforce this range, other than that described in the Validation section.
Pages
Yes, unless dynamic reconfiguration operations that add or delete memory occur. At that point, the value is reset to the value provided in the /etc/system file or calculated from the new physical memory value.
If pageout_reserve is greater than throttlefree / 2, pageout_reserve is set to throttlefree / 2. No message is displayed.
The relationship of lotsfree being greater than desfree, which is greater than minfree, should be maintained at all times.
The default value is generally adequate. For systems with relatively static workloads and large amounts of memory, lower this value. The minimum acceptable value is 64 KB, expressed as pages using the page size returned by getpagesize.
Unstable